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I've lived in this city my entire life and the vast majority of scary experiences have happened to me downtown. Which suburb do you live in?

Would you rather they stay the same and die as a company? They've just made an incredibly hard choice.

I take it your experience in cities is extremely limited.

Crime in my city (and most of the country) is lower than it's ever been. I've literally never been denied a ride by traditional cab drivers.

Not the area, the drivers.

Boston is incredibly segregated and in the area I live in is less than 10% white. It's not a coincidence that this is the only area in the city I've ever had trouble getting a ride to (roughly 200 total rides).

Why are we putting touch screens in cars while ignoring the fact that touchscreens are inherently more distracting. We're having the wrong conversations about car interfaces.

>I'm lucky enough to be a "creative" person

This is the kind of insanity Russel's original essay alludes to. If we weren't taught to fill every hour with "productive" work, then anyone could foster their creativity with idle pursuits that aren't limited by their ability to produce value.

People feel like they're not creative because they feel the constant need to produce something of value and are afraid to experiment with anything else. Creativity requires that type of experimentation.

The fact that we claim some people are creative and some are not is a complete facade. It's similar to saying "oh I can't draw" or "I'm bad at math" — well no, you've likely just spent less time practicing it... maybe you're too afraid to fail to even try.

I've had Uber drivers pick me up and refuse to go to the part of the city I wanted to go to... complete pain in the ass (and also racist in this specific case). Uber offered me $5 for my trouble each time, which is... very Uber.

Imagine if the military had to be profitable?

If they keep focusing on the browser at the rate things are going they'll be dead as a company. They need to think ahead and work on a strategy that keeps them afloat.

Uber and Lyft could still grant the same flexibility to employees. If they don't wouldn't it kind of blow their entire "contracting is better anyway" argument out of the water?